Silver Strike Live - Help!!!

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So I'm in the process restoring a Silver Strike cabinet. I purchased Silver Strike live complete kit from eBay that came with the matching CID board as well as the io board and Nighthawk computer. The cellar claims that everything was working prior to shipping and I trust with the amount of feedback that he had he is a trustworthy seller more than likely any errors at this point are my fault.

So I hooked up the I/O board to the Nighthawk via USB. The the io board is connected via Jamma. The CID board is also hooked up by USB. When I plug the power cord into the Nighthawk and fire it up a green light turns on the motherboard within the Nighthawk but I get no picture. None of the fans come on either within the Nighthawk. Initially I thought the power supply might be bad so I swapped it with the power supply in my Golden Tee live 2016 machine and it fired up my GT just fine. So I've eliminated the power supply being the issue. But I'm not sure where I'm going wrong from here.

I've included a video of what I've hooked up so far. If you can see something that is hooked up incorrectly please let me know I'm pretty anxious to get this up and running ASAP. Thanks guys, hope somebody can help me!!!

https://youtu.be/FMvtLwLA7sc
 
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Your setup is correct. Your motherboard has a corrupt bios, probably due to the backup battery being less than 2.5 volts.
All you need to do is jumper the power on pins on the motherboard. These pins are located near where the hard drive sata cable plugs into the motherboard.
Take a look at your nighthawk enclosure lid. It has a sticker on the inside, showing which motherboard you have and where the pins are located and the orientation.
Just take a small screwdriver and while the power is on, touch the two "power on" pins together. You will know you have the correct pins as the cpu fan will come on.
After you get things up and running, I recommend replacing the motherboard backup battery, cr2032. Next hook up a keyboard to the motherboard and fix the time and date and power on settings in the bios. Be sure to save them. You should be good to go.
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Looking at your setup, you do not have a VGA cable going from your video card on the nighthawk to the VGA port on the I/O Board. This is needed to pass video from the computer to the arcade monitor. This is assuming you are using an arcade monitor connected via the Jamma connector. If you have a VGA monitor, you can test that you get video by connecting that up as well. If you plan to or are using a direct VGA/DVI connected monitor and still not getting a picture, then we would need to look elsewhere. Also, there are dip switches on the I/O board that need to be set correctly based on what monitor you are connecting to. Manuals can still be found on ITSGames website.

I would replace the motherboard battery if the seller hadn't already. If you get it started and get a Date Time error as pointed out above, then follow their instructions, and also make sure to check the bios on the motherboard to make sure it is set to power up after power loss so you can use an external power strip for it.

You have the original nighthawk box with the 865 motherboard. Which graphics card do you have?
 
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I can replace the battery tonight. I'll toss in a fresh CR 2025. I know it's just thinner but I have easy access to them at work.

I have uploaded photos of my Mobo and vid card. I'm assuming they were upgraded along the way as my nighthawk box shows silver strike 2007 as the original sticker. (Maybe not I don't know for sure) just an assumption.
 
My other issue is monitor based. I have searched high and low for an original monitor for this cabinet with no luck. I'm resigning myself to the fact that it will have to be outputted to a TV or computer monitor in the end now. So what would be the proper hook up procedure for that?

I'm going to try and find a small TV (most likely led) or a larger computer monitor I want this build to be somewhat on a budget so I'm not spending 600 bucks for a TV/monitor otherwise I would have already bought another machine and gutted it for just the CRT monitor. As the only way I can find original CRTs is with a complete machine.
 
My other issue is monitor based. I have searched high and low for an original monitor for this cabinet with no luck. I'm resigning myself to the fact that it will have to be outputted to a TV or computer monitor in the end now. So what would be the proper hook up procedure for that?

I'm going to try and find a small TV (most likely led) or a larger computer monitor I want this build to be somewhat on a budget so I'm not spending 600 bucks for a TV/monitor otherwise I would have already bought another machine and gutted it for just the CRT monitor. As the only way I can find original CRTs is with a complete machine.

This may help lmk if you can read it on your end.
 

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You can bypass your soft power switch on the mother board by jumping the green and black wire on the power supply harness that goes in the mobo. A paper clip will work and or tie the two wires together.
 
Looks like the yellow and blue wire needs plugged in also. Try this before jumping the PS wires
 

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Looks like the yellow and blue wire needs plugged in also. Try this before jumping the PS wires

Sorry for the questions but here goes:

What do the blue and yellow wires do? I am like 99% sure these are also unplugged on my GT Live '16 machine. I didn't know what they did and the game worked fine without them so I left them unplugged.... I can try plugging them in to see what they do.

As for the pictures you posted they are somewhat fuzzy and I can't 100% make it out. If it is easier to email them to me that would be greatly appreciated!!! They look super helpful.

What will bypassing the soft power switch do?

Would the computer monitor that I am using be considered low, med or high res?
 
Sorry for the questions but here goes:

What do the blue and yellow wires do? I am like 99% sure these are also unplugged on my GT Live '16 machine. I didn't know what they did and the game worked fine without them so I left them unplugged.... I can try plugging them in to see what they do.

As for the pictures you posted they are somewhat fuzzy and I can't 100% make it out. If it is easier to email them to me that would be greatly appreciated!!! They look super helpful.

What will bypassing the soft power switch do?

Would the computer monitor that I am using be considered low, med or high res?

Bypass will turn on the power supply and boot system.

A computer monitor is high res/vga
 
Blue yellow may not be needed to boot it, just seen it was unplugged
 
Bypass will turn on the power supply and boot system.

A computer monitor is high res/vga

So the way I have hooked up my pc monitor is correct then according to what I can make out on your schematic, it says to hook it directly up to the Nighthawk.

Now could a simple dead coin battery be the cause of all this? Will it cause the machine not to boot at all like this? Or am I looking at a much more complex issue here?
 
You may have a bad soft power switch on the mobo, By Bypassing the switch with the green/black wires connected on PS harness, This will allow the pc to boot up and game play normal.. Yes hook it directly to the video card at the db 15 connection NOT the DVI connection.

Then you must then switch the dip switch on the I/o pcb at location 201 for the type of resolution you are using witch will be vga with a pc monitor. You should be able to zoom in on those pix the last one looks the best. The dip settings are there too.
 
This should help. It's the SSL Manual: http://www.bmigaming.com/Games/Manu...ng-video-arcade-game-operators-manual-its.pdf

Page 22 has the dip switch settings for the monitor. You should be find with switch 201 position 2 set to on, and the others off.

This is the manual for your motherboard: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15206/eng/d865gbf_d865glc_productguide02_english.pdf

This is the original SSB motherboard, as it has no PCI-e slot. It will run SSB just fine, but may not run SSBX (Mine didn't). Page 40 shows where the front Panel header is. Page 43 describes the pins. This image also shows them:
fp_header.jpg


If you connect the two pins labelled Power Switch together (I use a bolt or screw driver when testing) the computer should power on. Even if the CMOS battery is dead, it will power on and show an error on the screen. As mentioned above, as it is booting, you should be able to go into the bios and change the power settings so that it powers up automatically when power is restored after power loss (ie after it was unplugged or powered off with the power supply switch. )

The Blue and Yellow wires I believe are meant to connect to those power switch pins, and probably run to the audio/power board next to the power supply. The top connector was for a soft power switch.

Your graphics cars in an FX5200 AGP card: https://www.cnet.com/products/msi-fx5200-td128-graphics-card-gf-fx-5200-128-mb/specs/
This is one of the common SSB cards. I believe the 7300 is the only upgrade from this without getting a new motherboard/processor/ram/video card combo.


Hope this helps.
 
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So I ran a few tests:

1. Changed the battery left everything else alone. - nothing.

2. Tried jumping the wires: - nothing

3. Tried taking the power supply out and putting it all back in. - nothing

What now?

Have you tried jumping Pins 6 and 8 on the motherboard front Panel Header? Like in the Photo.
Even with NO CPU RAM or Video card jumping those pins "Should" fire off the board at least.
It really sounded like a Failed CMOS battery, because if it dies the Bios is cleared and the Power on after power Loss option is reset. Causing your board to not boot when just plugged in. Jumping those power switch pins should have fired to board up. (if it was a battery that died) Shipping can cause the batteries to go dead, not sure how but I have had a few that were dead on arrival after getting fixed and supposedly a new battery installed.

So if your 100% sure you have done those tests I wold tell you to contact the seller and see if he has some type of warranty. Maybe he can send you another board in exchange for the old one.

Worst case I think I have a old Original AGP motherboard from my SSB nighthawk PC. I would need to find it, but I know I have it. I upgraded to the PCIe board.
 
So good news sort of. I swapped my older Nighthawk which actually had the exact same motherboard and exact same video card I took the hard drive out of the one that I bought and placed it into the old machine along with the power supply and lo and behold the machine fired up. However I got an IT games splash screen on my monitor so the dip switch settings were okay apparently. But the hard drive clicks like a lot. Click-click click-click click-click click-click click-click click-click at a steady pace. Maybe the hard drive got damaged during shipping I'm not sure. I guess I'll contact the seller tomorrow and go from there. This sucks.

That is NOT a good noise. Maybe you can clone it quick before it dies and save it?
But from the sounds of things, you have bought a pile of Shit. Or the Seller has the worst luck in the world and had both a board and Drive fail in the same machine. ether way that sucks all the way around.
 
Are these hard drives copyable?

Can I just image the hard drive onto a new drive? Preferably a SSD so I don't have to worry as much about HD failure in the future? I'd like to idiot proof this machine for myself in the future as well as retain an image for myself if I ever do need a full restore.
 
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